Three ways to hand over

pronunciation to your

learners

Oana Samoila

Innovate ELT Conference 2017

5-6 May

Barcelona

Three ways to hand over

pronunciation to your

learners

Oana Samoila

Innovate ELT Conference 2017

5-6 May

Barcelona

Three steps to hand over

pronunciation to your

learners

Oana Samoila

Innovate ELT Conference 2017

5-6 May

Barcelona

Three

Raising learner awareness

Giving basic phonological

and phonetic insight

Using educational games

and technology in the

classroom

easy stepsmore or less

Step 1 Raising Awareness

Why should learners

know about

pronunciation?

What do your learners

know about

pronunciation?

What do you want

them to know?

Why should learners know

about pronunciation?

Because it is not separate from all

the other systems

Because it can make a difference

Because they can do it

Because pronunciation is a key

What do your learners

know about pronunciation?

What do your learners

know about pronunciation?

It’s difficult (60%)

It uses alien symbols

(1 very creative student)

They should hear and produce

sounds they believe they can’t hear

or produce (83%)

What do you want them to

know?

Sound is produced by the same

organs, in much the same way in

almost all languages

almost all

IPA is not Incredibly Painful Alphabet

Pronunciation can be (tam tam tam ta…)

FUN

Step 2 Basic Sound Insight

How sounds

are produced

IPA

Meet Miss

Mia Sound

How sounds are produced

IPA

Focusing on minimal

pairs

March 2017

Pronunciation Workshop

IH Jesi-Ancona

Step 3Make it fun and easy to access

Using games

Using

technology

Using

consistency

Bingo Instructions:

- Decide which sounds are part of the bingo

- Ask SS to fill in their grid with those sounds

randomly, as they prefer

- Play bingo

- SS eliminate their sounds from left to right. They

have to go in order.

- The first student to finish his grid, wins. He or she

will conduct the next bingo game.

Time:

10-15’

- Option 1: Call out individual

sounds.

- Option 2: Mouth individual

sounds.

- Option 3: Call out words that

include those sounds

Try in class

and as

homework Sound

animation

On your

phone

Try in class,

on your

phone, always

Consistency

Thank you very

much

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